Flab-to-Fit: Week 8 of the Transformation Workout Program

Updated on October 17, 2016

Lose Body Fat and Build Strength

A different approach to fitness which doesn't focus on one training modality such as aerobics or weight lifting, The Flab-to-Fit program combines various workout routines to help you lose body fat, increase endurance and tone muscle in a gradual, proven manner.

Built for the person who had been living a sedentary lifestyle, this plan serves as an introduction to a structured fitness program for those without previous experience and a reconditioning process for those who with previous experience but require an opportunity to rebuild themselves.

The Flab-to Fit exercise routine will help participants eliminate physical weaknesses in strength and endurance using the same methods that the armed forces trains its members to get and stay in shape. The year-long workout program is designed to transform your body by burning excess body fat while enhancing muscle tone and improving overall health.

It's now time to burn your fat and feed your muscles with the Flab-to-Fit Week 8 workout plan.

Overview: Week 8 Exercise Plan

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Running

Cross-training

Weight Training

Rest

Cross-training

Weight Training

Running

Sunday: Running

Sprinting is an awesome physique shaper. Unlike long distance jogging, sprinting is an anaerobic activity which reduces body fat and adds lean muscle mass in both the upper and lower body.

Wind sprints build leg speed and develop power in the glutes and legs. This workout includes ten sets of twenty meter sprints with sixty seconds of rest between sets. The intensity of the sprints should be high, eighty percent or better, but under your maximum in order to avoid injury. The sixty seconds of rest is given between sets in order to maintain a high level of intensity throughout the session.

* 15m in total, a jog building to a stride building to a sprint. ** Conducted as a circuit.

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Tuesday: Weight Training

The Flab-to-Fit weight training program is designed to gradually improve muscular endurance.

This session will add an additional set to amount lifted last week while keeping the number of repetitions at six. Rest for sixty seconds between each set. Keep the training poundage the same as the previous session. While conducting multiple sets, use the first set as a specific warm-up using half the training weight for each exercise.

During the warm-up and cool down walk; do arm circles, neck rolls and horizontal arm swings to increase upper body flexibility and mobility

EXERCISE(S)

SETS

DISTANCE/REPETITIONS

REST

Walk

1

800m

-

Squat

3

6

60 seconds

Bench Press

3

6

60 seconds

Seated Row

3

6

60 seconds

Military Press

3

6

60 seconds

Walk

1

800m

-

Stretch: Quad - Chest - Upper back - Delts

1

20 seconds each

-

Wednesday: Rest

No physical training activities are planned nor should be conducted on Wednesday. Recovery is crucial to success while training. Exercising day in and day out is tough on your body and it requires time and adequate rest to rebuild. Muscle growth and tone happens while resting not when working out.

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Thursday: Cross-Training

This workout was modeled after physical training sessions common in the armed forces special operations community. Cardiovascular and muscular endurance are perquisites for these service members being that everything they carry on a mission, they carry on their backs. Marine infantry units complete twenty-five mile marches in under eight hours wearing forty pound packs and carrying their weapons.

This Flab-to-Fit workout will be somewhat less intense but will still develop core and leg strength as well as stamina using a combination of calisthenics and a conditioning hike.

Friday: Weight Training

While increasing weight throughout the program, increase the poundage by the least amount possible. Also, while conducting multiple sets, use the first set as a specific warm-up using half the training weight for each exercise.

During the warm-up and cool down walk; do arm circles, neck rolls and horizontal arm swings to increase upper body flexibility and mobility.

EXERCISE(S)

SETS

DISTANCE/REPETITIONS

REST

Walk

1

800M

-

Squat

3

6

60 seconds

Bench Press

3

6

60 seconds

Seated Row

3

6

60 seconds

Military Press

3

6

60 seconds

Walk

1

800M

-

Stretch: Quad - Chest - Upper back - Delt

2

10 seconds each

-

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Saturday: Running

A striding session which will build your stamina and speed-endurance. Strides are conducted at a pace faster than a jog but slower than a wind sprint. Twelve sets at eighty meters should be sufficient to tax your cardiovascular system and build stamina and speed-endurance. Performance-wise, they also assist is enhancing the maintenance of top speed for a longer distance while sprinting.

Become the Best Version of You

You can't be someone else, you have to be you; so go and become the best version of you possible. This can be done in part by following healthy habits; exercising regularly using the Flab-to-Fit plan and nutritious eating which will transform your body inside and out. The result will be a body composition improvement with more lean muscle and less body fat plus increased strength and staying power to make life's physical tasks easier.

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